Well, contrary to the consistently wrong doom and gloomers,
California looks like it’s going to survive the as usual freak out news
projected and almost revered drought of all droughts, after all.
As I set here today once more letting my humble (ha) mind
roam freely, I’m looking out the window to another gorgeous, nay, almost
perfect California day after a pretty good little rain everyone was saying
might not ever happen again in our lifetime.
I’m not sure if it could be any more perfect. Large puffy
cumulous clouds dancing their dance of rejuvenation across a sky with blue
patches interspersed throughout. Along with a slight breeze ruffling both the
living leaves hanging and spent ones scuttling across the road out front, looking
for a resting place to return to and feed the Earth.
And on the future weather horizon, the predictions call for
more gentle rains coming up, furthering the falsehood absurdities tossed around
by the doomers that the “end is near” as far as California “for sure man”
drying up and blowing away as referenced by the Dust Bowl years of long ago in
Oklahoma.
I’m sure the poor folks living there were sure as could be
that life as they knew it was a done deal then but alas, eventually everything
turned back to “normal”. At this time I’m sure the good folks of Okalahoma only
shake their heads and roll their collective eyes at the false notion that “the
end is near” then, now, nor into the foreseeable future.
Speaking of the weather, I’ve long thought that what was
needed with all the weather services was a simple bit of the truth. For
instance, when they predict a blasting storm front on the way and it peters
out, as they oft tend to do, they should the next day say something like: “Man
did we screw that one up.” With a small guilty shrug of the shoulders and
smile. Then if they must, they could go on to explain how they could have been
so very wrong, which usually would consist of Ma nature not following their
made up rules.
But as you know, the next day, they pretend nothing was out
of the ordinary at all, just showing us the radar views of the non-existent
storm, as if it never were predicted just last night.
“The Truth”….What a convoluted concept that turns out to be
in this new and improved day and age we find ourselves in huh?
One day it’s an unequivocal scientifically proven fact that
the yolks of eggs are the devil incarnate.
Originally, the egg received a bad reputation with regard to
cardiovascular health, as one large egg contains approximately 187 milligrams
of cholesterol. Now new studies show that the caution may have been an
exaggeration and conclude that eggs are fine and may even improve your health,
as they contain nutrients difficult to find in other foods.
Just the fact that our grandparents consumed at the least a
few eggs a day and lived healthfully on into their old age might give a hint
also.
Old Truth: Coconut oil is a saturated fat body bomb that
should be avoided.
New Truth: Coconut oil can cure what ails you.
Old Truth: Coffee equals caffeine equals bad for you.
New Truth: Coffee is loaded with antioxidants and other
nutrients. Plus a little caffeine makes the world go around.
Old Truth: Salt kills. It raises blood pressures, causes
hypertension and increases the risk of premature death.
New Truth: Salt is essential to health. Too little salt can
actually lead to premature death.
Those interesting examples of how truth can change with time
bring me to the present day news sources. I don’t know about you but as I was
growing up, it sure seemed that whatever Walter Cronkite and those esteemed
newscasters told us back then was basically “The Truth”.
Never having been a “newsie nutcase”, I have no idea if
there were opposing or contrary opinions or others accusing their ilk of having
“Slanted or spun” views of the world events they nightly portrayed, but it
seemed everyone I knew took what they said as “The Truth”.
What we have now seems diametrically opposed to what was
presented to the masses back then.
Now we seem to receive nothing but extremism spun to the
ninth degree opinions from both sides of the political isle now, having no real
connection to any kind of real time tested verifiable truths.
With both proclaiming the other side guilty of spinning “The
Truth” to Mars and back, what we have now to digest is mostly ignorant
robotically repeated nonsense having more to do with each individuals political
agenda than any kind of solid truths.
Another thing I find interesting is both sides of the
extremist morons truly believe they are members of the vast majority with their
political agendas, when in fact they are a tiny minority of folks only roboting
whatever they are told to think by some radio nut job or entertainment news
source pretending to know something.
Another thing I find nuts are those relatively regular folks
on both extreme sides who start thinking they are somehow experts on incredibly
complicated world issues. This is while some of the best minds in the world are
in a constant struggle trying to do the right thing for mankind.
In my humble (there he goes again) opinion most world issues
have a dozen, if not far more shades of gray to take into account before
attempting any decision-making. To try and see them through any extremist black
or white lens is beyond nutso, it’s flat ass idiocy and solves nothing except
furthering ignorance, hate, blame and confusion between what would be mostly
normal caring Americans.
If possible, we need to start attempting to solve issues
through commonality born clear thinking, not extremist ideologies dug up
straight from the bomb shelters and basements of the lowest common denominators
of humankind.
1 comment:
Good read. I find myself agreeable to all this. As I get older the political aspect of everything becomes visible as well as my own realizationthat there is a truth buried underneath everything... as far as the need goes, they tend to spin that tiny thread of truthinto a HUGE exaggerated social Frenzy. The next day is always something new to exaggerate about...
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